From Slavoj Žižek’s “The Family Myth in Hollywood,” which examines the ‘true Evils’ of so-called ‘utopian socialist’ gated communities, to Brenda Cromb’s “Gorno,” which grapples with the recent cycle of ‘torture porn’ films, Cinephile, it seems, is fixated on contentious and unsettling art. So it is only fitting that, in this, our 5th anniversay issue, we set out to navigate the murky and uncharted depths of ‘alternative cinema’.